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3.4.6 - 31st August 2006
A collection of rolling updates to the spam filter. Unfortunatly also having to now include spamfiltering for registered accounts seeing as even the captcha verification is no defence against bot sign-ups

3.4.5 - 28th May 2006
Again, most work is being directed to v4 but I was getting sick of the guest-spam

Huge additions to guest spam-filter

Spam and Annoyances forum is removed from recent posts on portal

3.4.3 - 21st November 2005
Just the one update because I am busy on v4 but this needed to be done before then!

Spam check for guest posts

3.4.2 - 3rd November 2005

Updated phpbb core

Added guest voting mod

Portal:

Patched portal to work with guest voting mod

Added function to handle guest names in all areas of portal (no link if guest)

Added 'pending articles' link to welcome box

Fixed bbcode parsing in portal comments

Fixed newline parsing in portal comments

Housekeeping:

More PM code removal

Removed some unused tables

3.4.1 - 27th October 2005

News cat images moved to template and linked to forum as apposed to special categories

Portal:

Viewing a single item in the portal now shows comments underneath

"posts since last visit" now only counts posts that you are authed to see

Article prefix on article news posts

Rewrite of news functions to use above cat changes

A few other small bugs fixed

Attachmod:

Non-mod attachment uploading works (if they have quota and are authed)

Extra fixes to avoid displaying attachments where they are not wanted

Articles:

Article view now only shows articles that the user is allowed to see

Auth bug fixed. Authed users can now add pages to their own articles

Attachmod removed from article summary as it breaks things

Article/Search bugs fixed

New Article view bug fixed

Forum and Topic views enhanced to ignore draft/hidden etc articles

Enhancements to search to ignore draft/hidden articles

submit.php removed and it's features incorporated in posting.php

On submitting news, feedback is changed to allow for new submission or return to portal

Post topic as news is now a checkbox (if authed) as apposed to a two-item drop-down list

Additions to language files including extra feedback on certain things

A handfull of other little fixes

3.3.3 - 15th October 2005

Fixes to user/group auth

Adjusted display of news threads in forums

Added conditional display for "Most active topics in last 30 days"

Re-added code for displaying of non-published articles which was in before but seems to have vanished

Removed incorrect display of "edited by <username>" the DB does not track who edited a post and thus the text line just gives out number of edits and date of last edit. Moderators should add an edit reason manually if need be.

3.3.2 - 2nd October 2005

Fixed nasty bug that swapped a post for the newsitem/article summary if it was edited

Resynced all topics incase they were affected by above bug

3.3.1 - 29th September 2005

Removed preview-first requirement

Alterations to guest-posting visual confirmation

Added button below preview to jump to editbox

Added second submit button under preview (reg users only)

Fixed bug with smilie path

Article links in feature area and article listing now link to page 1 instead of summary

Extra link in article list to go straight to comment view

3.3.0 - 27th September 2005
This is the second part in the articles re-write system, enabling full control over articles within the site and full integration with all our other mods and custom changes.

Submit button only appears after you have previewed once (as in version 2)

More feed-back to guest posters regarding visual confrimation

Visual confirmation only displayed after a preview

Mod_rewrites on portal pages - nicer urls and more google-friendly

Full article creation/editing/deletion/management via site controls

Draft/Submission/Publishing article system with permissions and stuff

Article page goodness - add/edit/delete and also automatic page navigation created on the fly so no more messy manual index links

Article summaries have an auto-generated link to view the full article and hide comments etc

Attachmod integration with article system - will need some changes in the ACP later but allows article authors to add all images via the attachmod at any point to their article which can then be displayed inline.

Seperated topic/intro/comment view-count from actual article page view-count. This means that when viewing the comments or intro of an article it increments the topic-view count as per normal topics - a seperate page-count is used when viewing an actual page of an article. This gives a better indication of who many times people view an article as apposed to how many are viewing comments etc.

Article date now refers to update date for inhouse articles or published date

Additions to stop google (and other engines) trying to access files and folders that they shouldn't

A few changes in text labels

Bug fixes to several things in the update found after uploading while slightly jetlagged

3.2.0 - 21st August 2005
This was quite a big change in the back-end of the site tho not too much changed visually. It was part one in a two part process mainly centered around the article/CMS system which was didn't quite work how we wanted it to and seemed too detached from the main system. The re-write aims to make articles seem more tied into the site.

3.0.2 - 29th June 2005
Small changes to the anti-spam code as an interim measure while bigger features are still in development.

Tweaked registration agreement to personalise it more and add some more text

Added an extra custom security field with the visual confirmation code on account registration

Stopped signup scripts from creating new accounts with website details

No websites can be created or displayed on accounts with less than 2 posts

Non-activated accounts are not shown in the memberlist

3.0 - 19th September 2004
The biggest change yet as old code was exchanged for a full migration to a PHPBB + Mods codebase. This involves converting all the old data and adjusting the code to our needs and design.

Updated style (while keeping our trademark green colouring)

Another new domain as site name is changed to ZombieNexus.com (more pronounceable name while keeping our ZBN tag/initials)

Nice integration, meaning only one login for the site and all permissions controlled by PHPBB

All data from old codebase imported

News posts contained in forums to allow comments as with any forum post

Forums reorganised to reflect changes to site usage

News category additions to allow more customisation

Static pages integrated to CMS allowing site information to be ammended directly rather than hand-coded pages

Finally a usable review/article section - integrated into the rest of the site to allow commenting by registered users

RSS newsfeed

Modifications to list parsing: Replace line breaks with close list tags so as to output valid HTML pages